Testing is vital to the integrity of sport, complaining athletes must remember why doping officers are there and respect the process

No athlete enjoys drugs tests, not least because it normally involves providing a urine sample in front of a stranger.
But it can be more difficult when a sample is requested immediately after competition and dehydration makes it all the more uncomfortable to pee into a cup.
It can sometimes take hours, the athlete painfully aware of the fact that their team are also being delayed as a result. Neil Jenkins endured such embarrassment after kicking the British Lions to glory in South Africa in 1997.
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